Hamantashen

With Purim coming up, I have the taste for some good Hamantashens. Anybody know of any good ones in the Boston area? It would be best if the place is T-accessible. Anybody have Whole Foods? I know they aren't authentic, but that might be the only way I can satisfy my Hamantashen craving.

Clear Flour looks great. Too bad they're only serving them on the 10th and 11th. It's midterm season at school and Brookline is a bit of a journey. But I may have to skip studying and load up on some chocolate hamantashens.

In our family, they have always had yeast dough. I don't really get the "shortbread hamentashn" thing, so I still make them with yeast. But outside of my family, they really seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur! (The dough also has to completely encase the filling--which is only poppy or prune, date, or apricot, none of this chocolate or lemon nonsense--so that it's a surprise which one you get) I think this old style was too much of a hassle so nobody makes them that way any more, but it's too bad that bakeries don't make them that way any more... I bet Clear Flour would make a great rich "dairy dough".

Odd - I was in Clear Flour last Sunday (3/1) and they had chocolate, prune, and apricot hamantashen. (Although according to the website what they're offering this year is chocolate, poppyseed, and cranberry-orange (!))

I didn't actually buy any on Sunday, but now I'm thinking I will have to stop in again this weekend...or maybe on the way hmoe from work tonight.

I will say that I am a believer that a real genuine hamantashen has to be of the large variety. With the smaller ones the filling to dough ratio is never right and the dough gets too crunchy. The dough needs to maintain a touch of crumbly doughyness that can't be achieved with the mini versions...

I enjoy the smaller ones, but I think you're right that big ones are more proper.

Also, while Clear Flour's fillings are delicious, if I'm thinking of a proper, canonical hamantash (hamantashe? There's a reason I avoid referring to only one unit.*) I prefer the richer, more cookie-like dough of Kupel's version to that of Clear Flour's, which I'm struggling to describe. It's not pie- or tart-crust-like, really, but it is definitely more of a pastry dough than a cookie dough.

*And I do avoid using the singular, to the point where I normally order them saying something like "Let me have one of the poppy hamantashen."

unrelated to Hamantashen but this is the right crowd if you know what i mean. I am looking for a restaurant to host out of towners for a wedding this summer. All will be staying at the Hilton @ Logan. Looking for a moderately priced, nice restaurant, not too cheap, not too expensive, but with good atmosphere and good food. Any suggestions?